September 16, 2014
Last Time
Date: Thursday, September 18
Topics: weather vs climate, climate variability (examples), climate change, reproducible research, techniques for reproducible research, simple model for climate, radiation balance, gases in the atmosphere, early atmosphere, well-mixed atmosphere, heat vs temperature, greenhouse gases, hydrostatic balance, latent heat, phase change of water, evaporation, condensation, saturation, convection, lapse rate, adiabatic lapse rates, buoyancy, lifting condensation level, level of free convection, survivorship bias, heat transfer, geostrophic balance, mass vs momentum, temperature increases in the United States, globally